I'm going to ask your friends your numberAnd I'll call you when your man is out of townAnd if I say the right words at the right timeThen perhaps you'll even have me 'roundAnd wouldn't it be a funny situationThe two of us and a comic conversationHow's the world been treating you you'd sayTrying not to get involved in any wayHave you been as fancy freeAs how you said you'd like to beComic Conversation will pass the time of dayWhen all the while I'm dying to reach outAnd hold you in my arms the way I used to doI cannot help thinking that you feel the sameBut comic conversation rules the gameI'd like to spin a webAnd wrap you in its silver thread andFeel you swayOh-oh, but many years have passedAnd with them went the right I ever had toFeel this wayNo-oh, there isn't going to be a happy endingI think I should be going soonI can't keep on pretendingHow's the world been treating you you'd sayTrying not to get involved in any wayOh have you been as fancy freeAs how you said you'd like to beComic Conversation will pass the time of dayWhen all the while I'm dying to reach outAnd hold you in my arms the way I used to doAnd I cannot help thinking that you feel the sameBut comic conversation is the only way